People – Madonna, Ritchie Say They Are Happily Married
Madonna is squashing suggestions that her marriage may be ending.
“I am delighted to confirm that Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ritchie remain happily married,” the pop star’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, said in a statement this week .
The news media and blogosphere have been speculating on the couple’s status .
Ritchie, 39, attended neither Madonna’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week nor her star-studded United Nations fundraiser in early February.
Rosenberg explained that, until recently, Madonna, 49, and Ritchie were living in separate countries: The Material Girl toured the U.S. to promote her upcoming album “Hard Candy,” while the director was stationed in England putting the finishing touches on his new film “RocknRolla,” filming a Nike commercial and “working on several scripts.”
They have a son, Rocco , 7, and Madonna has a daughter, Lourdes , 11. In 2006, they began raising a Malawian boy they want to adopt.
Busey’s sorry for Garner squeeze
Gary Busey has apologized for hugging Jennifer Garner on TV at the Oscars Feb. 24.
During a live E! pre-show broadcast, Busey repeatedly interrupted while Ryan Seacrest was interviewing Garner and Laura Linney . At one point, Busey embraced Garner, who looked annoyed.
“I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable,” the 63-year- old actor said in a statement e-mailed this week by a publicist for his attorney, Vicki Roberts . By the time he realized Garner and Linney were being interviewed, Busey said he tried to step back but “suddenly Ryan introduced her to me.”
Calls to Garner’s publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik , weren’t immediately returned.
Busey, an Oscar nominee for his role in 1978′s “The Buddy Holly Story,” has parodied his eccentric reputation on HBO.
A Cyrus by any other name
Hannah Montana is leaving destiny behind.
Miley Cyrus , whose given name is Destiny Hope Cyrus , has filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court to change her full legal name to Miley Ray Cyrus.
The 15-year-old singer and TV star is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus , who filed the papers last Friday with wife Leticia . Her father writes in the filing that the request was “to make her commonly used name the same as her legal name.”
The name-change request was first reported by the celebrity Web site TMZ.com.
Miley Cyrus has said her father gave her the nickname “Smiley Miley” as a baby because of her sunny disposition.
– From Our Press Services
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Today’s birthdays
Patrick McGoohan , 80; Phyllis Newman , 75; Ursula Andress , 72; singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry , 71; singer Ruth Pointer , 62; Glenn Close , 61; Bruce Willis , 53; Zach Lind of Jimmy Eat World, 32; Craig Lamar Traylor (“Malcolm in the Middle”), 19.
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